SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — NewJeans, the first girl group from an independent label under K-pop powerhouse Hybe, has made an impact on music charts at home and abroad upon its debut. The five-piece multinational group debuted Monday under the label ADOR with its first EP “New Jeans.” It consists of members — Minji, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop boy group BTS has announced the return of its own variety show, titled “Run BTS,” after 10 months. “‘Run BTS’ will finally make a return after a 10-month break,” the band said in a teaser video it shared on social media Monday. “Please look forward to the release, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup has said there could be a way to allow members of K-pop supergroup BTS to perform overseas while carrying out their mandatory military service. Lee made the remark during a parliamentary defense committee meeting Monday, saying the issue can be handled without breaching the principle [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope of the K-pop superband BTS has performed as the final act of Chicago’s annual Lollapalooza festival, becoming the first Korean artist to headline a major U.S. music event, his agency said Monday. The rapper-dancer closed the four-day festival that drew a total of 105,000 music fans with an [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK, a top K-pop girl group, will officially drop its highly-anticipated second studio album in September, the group’s agency said Monday. It has been earlier announced that the quartet will return to the music scene this month with the new album. But YG Entertainment said in a video posted [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group Stray Kids put out its new digital single, titled “Mixtape: Time Out,” on Monday, the group’s agency said. “Aug. 1 is a meaningful day, when the name of the band’s fandom ‘Stay’ was made, so the band prepared a surprise present to celebrate the fandom’s birthday,” JYP [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest repackage album from Seventeen has come in fourth on the U.S. Billboard’s main albums chart, becoming the band’s highest-charting album. “Sector 17″ was fourth on the Billboard 200, selling 34,000 equivalent album units, Billboard said Sunday (U.S. time) in a preview of the upcoming chart. The Billboard [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Ateez, a rising fourth-generation K-pop group, returned to the music scene Friday with a new EP titled “The World EP. 1: Movement.” The band’s eighth EP marks a new beginning for its fictional storyline following the “Treasure” series about the eight members’ journey to discover a treasure and the [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop diva IU, the star of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first Korean-language film “Broker,” will return as a singer this fall. She will hold “The Golden Hour” concerts on Sept. 17 and 18 at the Jamsil Olympic Stadium in southern Seoul, her agency, EDAM Entertainment said Thursday. It marks [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean superband BTS has won four nominations at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, the U.S. TV station said Tuesday (U.S. time). The septet was nominated in the categories of Best K-pop, Best Choreography, Best Metaverse Performance and Best Visual Effects. The band has been awarded at the [...]